High School - Introduction:

Kamarpukur Ramakrishna Mission Multipurpose School under the aegis of Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Kamarpukur with Headquarters at Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal, is a Bengali medium high school. Approximately 725 students from classes V to X study here. This school is exclusively meant for boys. Golden Jubilee of the school has been celebrated noticeably.

The main objective of the school is the spreading of man making and character building education without distinction of caste or creed. Students are encouraged and trained here for all round development of body, mind and spirit – following the educational ideas of Swami Vivekananda.

The curriculum followed is generally what is prescribed by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. The medium of instruction is Bengali which is also taught as the first language. English is the second language. Sanskrit is provided as the third language to the students of classes VII and VIII.

Work education and Physical education is compulsory from class V to VIII. ‘Work education and physical education’ or ‘mechanics’ is offered as an optional subject in class IX and X.

Indian Culture and value Education (ICVE) and Computer application are taught as compulsory subjects in all the classes from V to X.

In order to remove examination phobia of the students and to make them read all subjects thoroughly, their evaluation takes place many times in a year. The final result is published after annual examination on the basis of all round evaluation.

The academic session of the school is from 2nd January to 31st December. Admissions are granted for class V only as day scholars and for classes V & VI as hostellers (the scope of admission in class VI as a hosteller, entirely depends on the availability of seats in any specific year). Parents seeking admission for their children have to obtain the prescribed application form and prospectus from school office in exchange of fixed price in the 1st week of August. For detailed admission procedure, please go through the link ‘Admission’.

Students must wear the school uniform only during school hours. School uniform is White shirt, navy blue pant (class V to class VII – half pant and class VIII to Class X – full pant), identity card, black school belt and simple shoes/slippers. Uniform for Physical Education classes: Blue half pant, white vest, white socks and white skates. Along with this blue sweater should be used in winter.

The students must follow some rules for development of the virtues like sense of discipline, cleanliness, self-reliance, truthfulness etc. and for the improvement of their academic as well as co-curricular carriers. By following these rules and regulations educational environment could be made more congenial as well as loving mutual relationship could be built. Some of these rules are –

All the students must follow the time table.

School uniform can only be used in the school hours inside the premises.

Pupil’s behavior and way of talking should be respectful towards monks, teachers and non-teaching staff members.

No one is allowed to meet the students during school hours without prior permission from the competent authority.

If the authority considers the behavior of any student is harmful to the ideal of the institution, then that particular student may be removed from the school. The guardians must communicate with the Headmaster to know about the progress in study and conduct of their wards.

Students, for their own interest and to maintain the congenial atmosphere of the campus, have to obey the rules imposed by the administration from time to time.

In case of lack of support of the guardian is noticed, in building character of the student according to the ideal of Swami Vivekananda, the student has to leave the school. He has also to leave the school for low percentage of presence, bad habit/s, perversity or any fault like these.

True Religion forms the basis of all activities in this institution. Neither sectarian nor ritualistic religion is taught, but every care is taken to make the students grow in all directions; i.e. physical, intellectual, moral and spiritual as envisaged by Swami Vivekananda. The institution relies on the potency of a favorable environment for gently drawing the minds of the students towards higher values of life. So, a spiritual ambience is sought to be maintained through regular congregational prayers, discourses, celebration of religious festivals and birthday anniversaries of spiritual leaders. Prayer forms an integral part of the students’ daily life. To develop among students, Indian ideal of life, special classes on Indian Culture are held once in a week. To implant the sterling qualities of great lives in their minds, the biographies of great men are studied with special emphasis on the inspiring traits like truthfulness, self-sacrifice etc.

Students clean the school premises and their own classrooms. In the ‘Work Education’ classes they are also taught to prepare different types of household commodities. Students are always encouraged to do their own works by themselves as well as to render service to the community.

Co-curricular and Creative Activities are one of the most essential parts of education. This institution conducts various kinds of programmes/competitions throughout the year to help a child in manifesting his dormant traits and to meet a growing boy’s various interests. Eager and willing students can learn music, tabla, band and drawing under expert teachers.

Among the co-curricular activities music (instrumental and vocal), painting, debate, elocution, recitation, drama, quiz and literary works are worth mentioning. To encourage students in bringing out their creativity, educational exhibition is also conducted every year.

The school has a library with more than 3150 volumes of test and reference books and also a reading room for teachers and students. Besides that an Area Library is also located inside the school campus. Around 11700 books, leading periodicals, magazines are also available there. Students/staff may issue/read academic/non-academic books of different kinds for improvement of their knowledge, from this Area Library.

There is arrangement of separate laboratories for physics, Chemistry, Life science and Geography. These laboratories provide students better understanding of the subjects.

Language Education Centre:

There is arrangement of multimedia based language teaching. Education of other languages (specially English) except mother tongue is also indispensible today in expressing students’ own selves.

Online Education:

There is an arrangement of multimedia based online education named ‘Vivek Disha’ in assistance with Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University. This is playing the attractive and glorious role in the students’ acquiring knowledge.

Computer Education:

A well-equipped computer laboratory adds an important and extra dimension to our school. Getting Computer training is a must for all the students. Examination is also taken in this subject.

Nature Study:

There is a special arrangement of the students’ nursing of flower and fruit trees and increasing of animal love in the school campus. Besides ‘Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Eco Club’ has been built to increase the environmental awareness of the students.

Special care is taken for all-round physical development of the boys through physical training, games and sports. Students are to participate in the Physical Training during their Physical Education Classes.

Arrangements are there to provide scope for playing football, cricket, volley-ball, badminton, basket-ball etc. The indoor games include carrom and table tennis. A well-equipped gymnasium provides lessons in body-building exercises, gymnastics and yoga. The institution is proud of its Band and Parade Group with its own flag and insignia. The institution Band and Gymnastic Troupe have earned public admiration for their performance. To develop a healthy competition and team sprit among the boys, different tournaments are organized. Our boys also sometimes play friendly cricket and football matches against other educational institutions. Every year Annual Sports Meet is organized in a befitting manner where eminent sports persons come as guests and encourage students.

There are three vacations, namely, Summer Vacation (2 to 3 weeks), Puja Vacation (about 4 weeks) and Session-ending Vacation (about 3 weeks). Other than the vacations mentioned above school also remains closed in some notified holidays. Without any urgent and specific reason students are not allowed to remain absent from attending classes.

It is expected that the guardians would share the same ideas and inculcate those ideas in the minds of their wards. It is necessary that guardians should have faith or ‘Shraddha’ in the ideas or ideals of this institution, without which the teaching learning process of this institution would remain incomplete. When the boys [hostel] remain with their guardians, they should be exhorted to follow as far as practicable, the daily routine of this institution. The young ones follow almost blindly their friends and companions. Guardians are therefore, requested to watch carefully their wards’ friends and companions at home and outside and guide their wards to avoid mixing with false or undesirable friends and companions, so that no untoward incident might occur in future.

Guardians should also be very vigilant so that their wards witness T.V. / Video / CDs / Cinema shows as minimum as possible. Programmme which seems to be conducive to the healthy development of the boys may be allowed and encouraged. Reading of healthy books, journals and magazines, etc. are also to be encouraged.

Swami Vivekananda used to say that education is the panacea to all social evils. He said, “We must have life building, man-making assimilation of ideas.” The main source of inspiration is the teaching of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda. The school, therefore, endeavors to educate the students in its charge according to the best traditions of the country, while instructing them in all directions – physically, mentally, intellectually and spiritually. As it prepares the students for public examination, it also tries to attend to their all-round growth and development. This is the ideal of education which we try to implement at Kamarpukur Ramakrishna Mission Multipurpose School.